Tutorials:How jQuery Works - Special Effects

Tutorials:How jQuery Works - Special Effects

hi,

I've been discovering jquery today and my question is pretty basic.. It concerns the introduction example on the effcts possible with jquery : url

It doesn't work. Why ?

my page:
author.html.php
  1. <script type="text/javascript" src="jquery.js">
      </script>
         <script type="text/javascript">
      $("a").click(function(event){
       event.preventDefault();
       $(this).hide("slow");
     });





  1. <a href=""><?php echo "[".$message['ts']."] From: " . $message['authorname'] . " - " . $message['title']; ?></a><br />
I'm just following what the introduction says (I think) so am I wrong ?

this code :
  1.  $(document).ready(function(){
     $("a").click(function(event){
     alert("As you can see, the link no longer took you to jquery.com");
     event.preventDefault();
     }); });




works just fine but that's a code above the effect one. I just don't get it.

My current System: Win XP/FF 3.6.2/jquery 1.4.2/Apache2.2.14/Localhost

If anyone can help me out thanks guys.